INTOXICATING EGGS

Southland Times, Issue 18935, 23 September 1920, Page 2

INTOXICATING EGGS

ONE LIQUOR YOKE THROWN OFF FOR ANOTHER. After travelling 25.000 miles in fourteen weeks in the United Stales, Mr John Duxbury, who has returned to his home in London with a mass of information in support of prohibition, and a few interesting anecdotes, writes to the Daily Chronicle. "Before the States went ‘dry,’ he says, ‘‘(lie import, of ops to Detroit from Canada was nothing to speak of. Recently it a.-tsunieG astonishing proportions, and scarcely a boat crossed the lake without bringing its cargo of (he best new laid. "The oilier day a man stepped on to the pier carrying a largo basketful. Before he had gone far he was knocked down by a taxi cab, and the eggs were smashed, and passers by soon saw the thirsty earth refreshed by a little river of the finest Scotch. "When the excitement had died down it was found that the egg dealer hadn’t waited to swear at the taxi driver. It is a most difficult matter to adequately describe a person for identification purposes in a few words, or even a volume of words, and the mere name of the person is no very reliable gviide, since many men rejoice in identical names and two "John Smiths” often enough answer well to the same description (says the Wellington Post i. If mistakes arc made by the police in arresting a man under these circumstances, therefore, they may very reasonably be excused, though the incident is likely to rankle in the wrong man’s mind for quite a time. When the Moeraki arrival from Sydney on her last trip from Australia, the detectives arrested a young man named Henry Patrick Anderson upon a charge of having obtained money by means of a valueless cheque in Sydney in August last. Anderson protested then, and in Court next morning, that he was not the man, as he had not been resident in Sydney since 1913. However, as the police were certain that they had arrested the man described in the cable from the Sydney police, as indeed they had, the prisoner was remanded for a week, during which time inquiries were to be made by cable. Happily for Anderson, a second communication was received from the Sydney police shortly after the Court rose to the effect that Henry Patrick Anderson was not the real Henry Patrick Anderson in whom they were so earnestly interested. The man was accordingly freed.